by Juan Vernet, Ramón Masats · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422688884
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«Al-Andalus. El Islam en España» is the historical essay by Juan Vernet and Ramón Masats, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (176 pages, in Spanish).
The book traces the history of Al-Andalus and the influence of Islam in Spain, with special attention to its cultural and artistic legacy. The text is accompanied by photographs and illustrations of Islamic architecture and art, with domes and ornamental geometric motifs.
The edition, published in 2001, brings together 172 color photographs and black-and-white illustrations, and includes a one-page final bibliography.
For readers interested in the history of Spain, the Andalusian legacy and Islamic art.
Juan Vernet Ginés or Joan Vernet i Ginés was a Spanish science historian, Arabist and professor at the University of Barcelona for over thirty years. He was the pupil and intellectual heir of orientalist Maria Millàs Vallicrosa. The rigor and scope of his scholarly work give him international authority in the field of the history of science and cultural transfers between East and West. Author of the book "What culture owes to the Arabs of Spain", he also translated the quran and One Thousand and One Nights into Castilian Spanish.
